There's a hard moon risin' on the streets tonightThere's a reckless feeling in your heart as you head out tonightThrough the concrete canyons to the midtown lightWhere the latest neon promises are burning bright

Past the open windows on the darker streetsWhere unseen angry voices flash and children cryPast the phony posers with their worn out linesThe tired new money dressed to the ninesThe low life dealers with their bad designsAnd the dilettantes with their open minds

You're out on the town, safe in the crowdReady to go for the rideSearching the eyes, looking for cluesThere's no way you can hideThe fire inside

Well you've been to the clubs and the discothequesWhere they deal one another from the bottom of a deck of promisesWhere the cautious loners and emotional wrecksDo an acting stretch as a way to hide the obviousAnd the lights go down and they dance real closeAnd for one brief instant they pretend they're safe and warm

Then the beat gets louder and the mood is goneThe darkness scatters as the lights flash onThey hold one another just a little too longAnd they move apart and then move on

On to the street, on to the nextSafe in the knowledge that they triedFaking the smile, hiding the painNever satisfiedThe fire insideFire inside

Now the hour is late and he thinks you're asleepYou listen to him dress and you listen to him leaveLike you knew he wouldYou hear his car pull away in the streetThen you move to the door and you lock it whenHe's gone for good

Then you walk to the window and stare at the moonRiding high and lonesome through a starlit skyAnd it comes to you how it all slips awayYouth and beauty are gone one dayNo matter what you dream or feel or sayIt ends in dust and disarray

Like wind on the plains, sand through the glassWaves rolling in with the tideDreams die hard and we watch them erodeBut we cannot be deniedThe fire inside